CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said in the written statement, "Some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached between SSCI (Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) and the CIA in 2009."
The Los Angeles Times said that on Thursday, plans to put the $659 million emergency stopgap plan to address the overflow of 57,000 undocumented children has been thwarted reportedly by Senator Ted Cruz, who is said to have been working behind the scenes to stir enough conservative opposition to block it. GOP leaders in the House had to cancel Thursday's vote due to the lack of votes needed to put the plan through.
There have been daily attempts to reach the site as fighting between the rebels and the government continues in the area. The small group of investigators had come in in a convoy of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitors, BBC reported.